In 1440 several western and eastern Prussian towns formed the Prussian Confederation, which led the revolt of Prussia against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in 1454.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

* 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

* 1454 – In the Thirteen Years ' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.

Forced to flee arrest, he made his way, with the help of the Duc of Luxembourg and Prince de Conti, to Neuchâtel, a Canton of the Swiss Confederation that was a protectorate of the Prussian crown.

They served in the Prussian navy, the navy of the North German Confederation, the Imperial German Navy and briefly in the modern Federal German Navy, the Bundesmarine.

The fortress, ancestral seat of the medieval Luxembourgers, was taken over by Prussian forces, following Napoleon's defeat, and Luxembourg became a member of the German Confederation with Prussia responsible for its defense.

* 1454 – Thirteen Years ' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

To solidify Prussian hegemony, Prussia and several other North German states joined the North German Confederation in 1867 ; King Wilhelm I served as its President, and Bismarck as its Chancellor.

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

In February 1454, the Prussian Confederation rose against the Teutonic Order's rule.

The Prussian Confederation, with its members now practically divided, ceased to exist as such.

Towns which founded the Prussian Confederation on 14 March 1440:

In 1440, the gentry of Thorn formed the Prussian Confederation, and in 1454 rose with the Confederation against the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years ' War.

* February 4 – In the Thirteen Years ' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.

* September 15 – Battle of Zatoka Świeża: The navy of the Prussian Confederation defeats the Teutonic fleet.

* February 21 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

The combined German forces, under Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke, were the Prussian First and Second Armies of the North German Confederation numbering about 210 infantry battalions, 133 cavalry squadrons, and 732 heavy cannon totaling 188, 332 officers and men.

Allenstein joined the Prussian Confederation in 1440.

Though the status quo was restored, the conflict lingered on and on 1 February 1864 the German Confederation, i. e. Prussian and Austrian troops crossed the Eider sparking off the Second Schleswig War, after which Denmark had to cede Schleswig and Holstein according to the Treaty of Vienna.

In 1451 the town council joined the Prussian Confederation that was fighting against the Teutonic Order, but bishop Kaspar Linke expelled the councilors and confiscated their property.

Kwidzyn (, Prussian: Kwēdina ) is a town in northern Poland on the Liwa river, with 40, 008 inhabitants ( 2004 ).

The Evangelical Church in Germany (, abbreviated EKD ) is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified ( Prussian Union ) and Reformed ( Calvinist ) Protestant regional church bodies in Germany.

The Prussian administrative unit that covered the territory of the Duchy was called the Province of the Grand Duchy of Posen in the years 1815 – 1849, and later to simplify just the Province of Posen (, ).

It was a leading player in the Prussian Confederation (, ) directed against the Teutonic Monastic State of Prussia.

The Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (, ) was a semi independent ecclesiastical state, a Prussian bishopric under the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Riga that was a protectorate of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights ( 1243 – 1466 ) and a protectorate of Kingdom of Poland, later part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Peace of Thorn ( 1466-1772 )

Middle Silesia (, ) was a colloquial designation for the Regierungsbezirk Breslau subdivision in the Prussian province of Silesia from 1813 to 1945.

The Free Conservative Party (, FKP ) was a right-wing political party in Prussia and the German Empire, which emerged from the Conservatives in the Prussian Landtag in 1866.

From 1875 on the provinces were bodies combining regional home rule through representatives delegated from each rural and urban county (), forming the provincial diet ( with a 6 year term ), which elected from its midst a head of this self-administration, the Landesdirektor ( with a 6 to 12 year term ), and a provincial government (, provincial committee ) as well as part of the superordinated overall Prussian royal administration, supervising-on a provincial range-the self-governing municipalities and counties as well as each governorate (, mere supervising bodies of the Prussian government ).

91a (, originally Jääkärien marssi ) was composed by Jean Sibelius in 1917 to the words written by the Finnish Jäger, Hilfsgruppenführer Heikki Nurmio who served in Libau, in the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion of the Imperial German Army.

Perkūnas (,, Prussian: Perkūns, Yotvingian Parkuns ) was the common Baltic god of thunder, one of the most important deities in the Baltic pantheon.

Hlučín Region (, ), formerly part of Prussian Silesia, also became part of Czechoslovakia under the Treaty of Versailles in 1920.

The German Progress Party (, DFP ) was the first modern platform – based political party in Germany, founded by liberal members of the Prussian House of Representatives () in 1861, in opposition to Minister President Otto von Bismarck.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

Marlborough's anxiety was finally allayed when, just past noon, Colonel Cadogan reported that Eugene's Prussian and Danish infantry were in place – the order for the general advance was given.

Ten infantry colours were lost to the Bavarians, and hundreds of prisoners taken ; it was only through the leadership of Eugene and the Prussian Prince that the Imperialist infantry were prevented from abandoning the field.

However, the Prussian infantry was not there.

Although the various Baltic tribes were mentioned by ancient historians as early as 98 B. C., the first attestation of a Baltic language was in about 1350, with the creation of the Elbing Prussian Vocabulary, a German to Prussian translation dictionary.

The dye Prussian blue was first accidentally made around 1706, by heating substances containing iron and carbon and nitrogen.

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

In 1815, the Russo-German Legion was integrated into the Prussian Army and Clausewitz re-entered Prussian service.

His conclusions were influenced by his experiences in the Prussian Army, which was often in an intelligence fog due partly to the superior abilities of Napoleon's system but even more to the nature of war.

In 1209, Christian was commissioned by the Pope to be responsible for the Prussian missions between the Vistula and Neman Rivers and in 1212 he was appointed bishop.

His seat as a bishop remained at Oliwa Abbey on the western side of the Vistula, whereas the pagan Prussian ( later East Prussian ) territory was on the eastern side of it.

Duke Konrad of Masovia still was not capable to end the Prussian attacks on his territory and in 1224 began to conduct negotiations with the Teutonic Knights under Grand Master Hermann von Salza in order to strengthen his forces.

It was regarded as a Protestant custom by the Roman Catholic majority along the lower Rhine, and was spread there only by Prussian officials who were moved there in the wake of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.